A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

They do run about a second too soon. I used to change my watch every day (sometimes more than once a day) in the school playground:o:o:o. Forever trying to pause it slightly and keep it on track. Never managed to own a radio-controlled watch, as those pieces of equipment usually have difficulty picking up time signals? And always hideously expensive anyway, so kept with old-style watch:money:. I don't have a watch or don't wear one much at all these days, as able to rely on (probably inaccurate:rotfl:) public clocks!:)

I wonder if this how people feel who live on or near the Greenwich Meridian Line :think:

zippydooda

fairclaire wrote: »

3 seconds I was reliably informed today :rotfl:

but if its known to be 3 seconds, it only has to be set 3 seconds fast to show as the correct time when viewed.

zagubov

purpledonkey wrote: »

I love the last message they left

I miss that!

I used to get cheap travel tips and subtitles to songs on TOTP. And news updated by the minute. Always amazed me that the US didn't have it. I remember reading the updates on the 9/11 attcks when the intyernet couldn't handle the traffic. I rmember ITV had a version called Oracle?

On another thread we were moaning about the disappearance of tapes.
Such is progress!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjUVIIYptE&feature=kp

:beer:

aau1

speaking of clocks...above Central Station in Glasgow is a countdown clock to the Commonwealth Games. "Powered by the Official Timekeeper to the Games"

It is always 2 seconds behind the main station clock just below it. eg if it was 9pm on the station clock it would say "the Games are starting in 60 days and 2 seconds".

Strange that they they aren't synced on the hour or are the Games opening 2 seconds past the hour :think: :think:

I had to know who I could trust. It risked throwing my entire enjoyment of the Games out of the window if the Official Timekeeper could be out by 2 seconds :eek:

So i wrote to Scotrail to ask which time was right (well what else am I going to do when I'm waiting for a train and I notice this glaring difference?) They apologised but didn't actually say which was right just that they check regularly and enclosed a £5 voucher :money:

Why £5? Because they took too long to respond to my query! :rotfl: Moral of the story, they need to pay more attention to the time

Savvybuyer

It's supposed to synchronise with a time server. Obviously time server's out, not having that!!:p

Oh, just tried to set it manually to timeanddate's time. Failing by a split second either way each time - my finger is too slow or too fast!
So, I went and pressed 'update' on the time server screen - and it's now the precise right time! So their server (Windows) is correct after all!:T Phew, the end of the world has been prevented again (and breathe!!:D:rotfl:):).

David.

aau1 wrote: »

speaking of clocks...above Central Station in Glasgow is a countdown clock to the Commonwealth Games. "Powered by the Official Timekeeper to the Games"

It is always 2 seconds behind the main station clock just below it. eg if it was 9pm on the station clock it would say "the Games are starting in 60 days and 2 seconds".

Strange that they they aren't synced on the hour or are the Games opening 2 seconds past the hour :think: :think:

I had to know who I could trust

So i wrote to Scotrail to ask which time was right (well what else am I going to do when I'm waiting for a train and I notice this glaring difference?) They apologised but didn't actually say which was right just that they check regularly and enclosed a £5 voucher :money:

Why £5? Because they took too long to respond to my query! :rotfl: Moral of the story, they need to pay more attention to the time

Sneaky heathen :money:

zippydooda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:_pale_My computer clock's out by ten seconds!! You'll recall it was last set when the clocks went forward in March. Now running ahead of what it should be, according to timeanddate!_pale_:eek: Gosh, how will the world cope?!?:rotfl:

just checked my lappy time against the internet time links just posted. they were identical

purpledonkey

zagubov wrote: »

I miss that!

I used to get cheap travel tips and subtitles to songs on TOTP. And news updated by the minute. Always amazed me that the US didn't have it. I remember reading the updates on the 9/11 attcks when the intyernet couldn't handle the traffic. I rmember ITV had a version called Oracle?

On another thread we were moaning about the disappearance of tapes.
Such is progress!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjUVIIYptE&feature=kp

:beer:

I used to play bamboozle on teletext every day after school



Confession: the car I drive has a fixed cassette player still Last year Em and I went to a charity shop and found the Top Gun soundtrack on tape. It was warped unfortunately but it did make us laugh blaring out 'Danger Zone'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E

David.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

It's supposed to synchronise with a time server. Obviously time server's out, not having that!!:p

Oh, just tried to set it manually to timeanddate's time. Failing by a split second either way each time - my finger is too slow or too fast!
So, I went and pressed 'update' on the time server screen - and it's now the precise right time! So their server (Windows) is correct after all!:T Phew, the end of the world has been prevented again (and breathe!!:D:rotfl:):).

:rotfl: and breathe

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

speaking of clocks...above Central Station in Glasgow is a countdown clock to the Commonwealth Games. "Powered by the Official Timekeeper to the Games"

It is always 2 seconds behind the main station clock just below it. eg if it was 9pm on the station clock it would say "the Games are starting in 60 days and 2 seconds".

Strange that they they aren't synced on the hour or are the Games opening 2 seconds past the hour :think: :think:

I had to know who I could trust. It risked throwing my entire enjoyment of the Games out of the window if the Official Timekeeper could be out by 2 seconds :eek:

So i wrote to Scotrail to ask which time was right (well what else am I going to do when I'm waiting for a train and I notice this glaring difference?) They apologised but didn't actually say which was right just that they check regularly and enclosed a £5 voucher :money:

Why £5? Because they took too long to respond to my query! :rotfl: Moral of the story, they need to pay more attention to the time

I had a payment of £20 off National Savings once. I didn't even have any money, bonds or any account or anything there. They were just dealing with one of my silly enquiries that, occasionally, I feel I have to write in and ask certain organisations/companies:rotfl:. Because they were a few days outside their target time, they sent me a cheque! Very nice surprise:T:T.